Distributer.



Patented Mar. 15, 1910.

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J, 0.. HEINZE DIS'IRIBU'IEB.A LIGATION 'FILED JULY 2e, 1909.

APP

DISTRIBUTER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1909.

Patented Mar. 15, i910.

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ger of two v como these obiections,

pose by means are adapted to 'In the JOHN o'r'ro HEINZE, JR., F LOWELL. MASSACHUSETTS.

DSTBIlBUTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented llltai'. 15, 191th Application filed July 29, 1909. Serial No. 510,26@

Toni?. whom rLtd'may concern:

Be it known that l, JorisY Orro Hisiivzn, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell. in the county of Middlesex and State ot Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distributors, ot' which the following is a speciication, reference being had therein to the :accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to apparatus known as high voltage distributors employed in connection with niagnetos` for distributing secondary currents to spark plugs in the explosion chambers` oit internal combustion engines. p

lll til lilllltlf heretofore used, there has been. k single distributing arm or blade brought into contact, successively, with a scr-ies of terminals connected with sparking devices in the cylinders of an internal coinbustion engine. Such construction is objectionable for many reasons.` For example, should the blade become inoperative, the whole distributer becomes useless; should, the distributer be designed for affour cylinder engine, it could not be used for ari en-Y gine having a greater or aless number of cylinders; and further, as the terminals, leading to the cylinders, are in the same chamber and lie in the saine plane as is the revolving distributing blade, there is danor more of the adjacent terminals becoming short circuited.

` The purpose of my invention is to oven and l attain this purot what l terni unit distributors, so a ged that each is complete iii itselijg perfectly insulated from all others; and, in" case ot breakage of any of its part, or in cat.` the unit becomes inoperative, 'such p ris, or any entirely new Aunitniay be quit, and easily substituted; and further, the construction or' most ot'. the parts of my distributor is such that instead of having to make particular parts for aparticulai' distribute-r for, say, one, or a two, or a four, or a six cylinder engine, the parts be assembled in thc torination of a distributor for any multiple cylinder engine., 1t will bei obvious that such a. distrihiit-,er greatly simplifies and reduces the cost of manufacture, and its forni is a great convenience in case it lis injured or de- ,stroyed drawings illustrating the principles of my invention and the best mode now blades thereon; Fig.

' armature shaft, and not shown.

` wheel.

known to nie of embodying the' same, Figure 1 isa perspective side view showing a series of four unit distributers mounted upon a magneto, only a portion of which is shown; Fig. l is a perspective end view oi: the unit distributers; Fig. 3 a perspective View showing how the unit distributer cases are assembled and sustained in relation to a common distributing shaft, and distributing 4 is a vertical section of a unit distributor case, with a high tension wire and a binding post, indicated in dotted lines, and held by a binding screw; Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section or' so much oi' the apparatus shown in Fig. 1, as embraces the unit distributer construction. Fig. (3 is a` view of a high tension binding post for each unit distributor case.

l Abrass frame 1 is secured, say, to the base of a magneto., and two rods 2, 3, fixed to this frame, extend forward horizontally, and receive and' sustain one or more unit d' is- 4, 5, G, 7, and an end plate 8,

tributer ,cases y which, in'turii, sustains one end of a common distributer shaft 9, l? ig. 5; the other end of said shaft having a bearing in said frame. rPhe distributcr shaft 9, Figs. and 5, here shown, is rcctangul arin cross section, and has each end portion turned d owu and provided with screw threads. (')n the threaded inner end portion is placed a washer 10, and againstitis screwed a. fiber head11 secured in position on the shaft by a pin 12 through the head I and the shaft. Upon the ber head centrally mounted in relation to the shaft-,\ is a distributer gear wheel 13 which receives its power, as, from a driving gear fixe-dto an A ballbcaring cone 15 is centrally fixed to the distributing gear, and is separated 'from the head of insulation 11 by a mica washer 1G, while a retaining ring 17 with balls 18 therein, is held in proper position against a shoulder 19 formed in a recess 2O in a portion of the frame 1. A headed screw 21, which may be screwed into the cone 15, retains the ring and balls upon the ball cone, so that the ball bearing becomes removably secured to the distributer shaft and gear This distributor shaft 9, being dcsigned for a distributer to be used with a l four cylinder engine, requires four blades for each cylinder, and

22, 23, 24, 25, one

hence each blade has a square hole to permit it to be fixed in the proper relation to, and turn with, the square distributing shaft.

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while ilA a hel In lire 'in wliicn nia j:

, in which envie;

inwn in a im sl e owe 'i .L f T, see aine Fig. E, .'vi Surface lowarfl. l'ie gear Wiles'. is next slid ever The Shall; next 'a blade nexi a paeer 2G; next another ease, as il, and blade 24. and spacer nl Se on, until ille il number o are nfiii plane l; here, l allers il ihre; leal pnrlien elf lli.. ii, is-seiewed a lx while a welainii'ig ring -f upon 1he i me and nin #le Lien Lef the tion, it .fi Sliaf, hall he bound egelher ,he unil alinnl; tl but are prevenie( by ille blades, which, hy n degrees apart. To reinevably parts on "che nagneo, in eper y, rhe clisrl'ini Cases 4;. 5, (S, T, are,

l C elf the l i 3l, 35 ci ente the two heim Zenal f` lng ,reels 2, 3, fixed 'te llie frame. i her reference te liig. 3 will and te Jihm",

` harig l i eil nnen l i Lum, l weee #17, recessed le receive iihe reiaining Sha lli'.

rough ille hmmm g 3l, 1n which ne nisi ilhalh 1, l 3. nif the ilislribnlri :he en( 1 lI hai-il lllmi S in inminland at i lil angles lo ille lwi) snprolls i2, and has centrally disl in and extending ihiongh it a metal ing -llifor i'he einer hall hearingl el the When the eral piece 1l? is in pnsitinn, nn?,Q 47S. ld" '5. 'l an l il, may be Seri-wed apen lhe end pnrliniw Uf llie rolls 2. il, and, by inining np llie mais. the enfi plaie. push4 ing against' lli@ i'viainingf ring; il el the enter hall hearing` of ihn lShall. anil also againsi lhe ant/si' flilrihning ease as l. (-anxes lhe nlisl iinningj eases and the inner hall hearing allV le ashjnnie, and lo he held in. nyeralive llebilielr "ln iihe enter will purtinn nl' the inel'al re -e ml piene l? in the enrl plaie S. i :i (lerici.) nr binding` pesi l) tn which ,i

vnm'inn wire. as .'30, may he al'aahnli for einplying 1hr (lewirml fan-rent fhi'nag'li thel miler hall hearing le the retailing (lialrihnling Shall, anfl thence le (he lisl'riliniingA hlailn, :inil ma es;-ii'l,-l in ih(l high tens-inn wirev il4 3&2, .'i. 5l, luailing in Spal-kinel leviww nlf thi` engine. sleeve 35 of inSnlai ing' inalirial is llii'eaihwl anil si 'eweil nnln ilwy ,nini-v li', l'ni: llie eler'rieal in 'nieetien nl' he f-ni'ineelinn between lhe wire .70 and llie nini nml l! it n he nni, shall' is ineznlalml wl Lhal lne A1' -wheel hy thil haril lili( head; lha( fe enil gym-lion nl' nach ilisiihnlingv hlaile jimi unl nl vnnlael: with the high ienizinn i si'wfnnilary liinflingY pest lerniinal. innanleil in lli-n teli nl the (liSfribnling ease unil llnsh willi ille inside slnlaee 01"' lhe hlaile i'iwesrg in lln ilinl'rilinling f'aSl. Fnrlher` il is aim ln he nhservefl l'ha'l lhe hellem nf the hla le rei-ess in eaeli'vv'ase farms a deep paiitinn nl' innnlalinn Jini 'only between thil ailiawni hlarles. hui als/i lielween die aflliaeenlr nennilary lern'iinals; anfl lhe (langer elf hurl viicnil'ing thnae leiniinals is ahwlnlely prevented. lknw if anj,Y el the paris heemne ln-nlen. a a lilaile. or a case, or il ily is (lersirahle in inleieliange any of llie parte;` er

,walifeiilnlv new lnr nhl, elearly the ennslrnelien nl the paris iS sneh, LlialV lhey may he Lly laken ont. ani'l examined and the (lisi'nliled, v

-lhnnlil 1i liiconie neeesaai'y lo ailaply lhe ahnve described (lisliihnt'einf fein' units in a ln'ee cylinder engine, ali lha(Y wonlil he Iieuesfsary Se lo (lo, would he lio dispense wilh une lilrihnlinlgY ease. Snhslilnle fur lhe square shaft, a `@hm ier une having a vsnila'nle Cross .ls ielion, and three lilaflea. ll' there. are Six @vlinder lhen previde six (lislrihnling' azases, siililnle a longer shal'l having a hexagonal wenn section. anrl six hlarles ha vin; hexagonal shall holes.

s ll the paris, except lhe ShallI anfl hlanlenv will; lxnles le lit a particular Shaft, living aflaptefl in he assunihlefl in a ilitrihuler for Y polygonal in cross section; distributing pla-nes and havin@ on the polygonal shaft.

an number of cylinders, obviously, by provi( ing proper shafts, and blades for engines With different numbers of cylinders, a suitable distributerf for an engine with a particular number of cylinders may be very quickly made ready by assembling all the parts, suitable for and required by any distributer, with a shaft and blades for a particular distributer.- In tine, all the partsl except tbe shaft and blades, of a distributer, are adapted to be assembled for a distributer designed'to operate any number of cylinders.

-Having described my invention and-desiring to protect the same in the broadest manner legally possible, what I claim is :d

1. in a distributer, a distributing shaft,

blades mounted on said shaft'in parallel therethrough holes so as to enable the blazdes to be properly placed 2.` A distributing shaft with distributing ,blades thereon in parallel planes; a distrib,-

utig case of insulating material for,.' and to contain, each distributing blade;` and .means tosupport and retain each case in ffii:

,sus

l proper position in relation to its respective blade and distributing shaft.

3. A distributing shaft with distributing blades thereon in parallel planes; distributing' cases of insulating material for7 and to contain, the respective distributing blades, said eases bein@ arranged in series and in paralleiism; and terminals mounted in said cases to electrically cooperate with said blades.

et. Ar distributing shaft with distributing blades thereon in parallel planes; distributing cases of insulating material forj and to- ALT; 

